... of the major concerns during the planning of a space mission, whether its objective is scientific (interplanetary exploration, observations, ...orbit). For space rendezvous, this autonomy ...
... more and more on the cooperation between different spacecraft in order to achieve a desired ...Among thespacecraft proximity operations, the orbital rendezvous is a ...
... In the literature, fuel-optimal spacecraft flying-formation problems and model predictive controllers related to space applications are traditionally formulated as Linear Programs (LP) (see [10, 16, ...
... Introduction Forspacecraft proximity operations (spacecraftrendezvous, station keeping, collision avoidance), the relative dynamics are often linearized for both propagation or ...
... predictive controlforrendezvous hovering phases Christophe Louembet 1 , Alejandro ...2 and Paulo ...MPC for- mulation is proposed to tackle the problem of the ...
... investigating the robustness of the proposed controller from a theoretical point of view, providing, for example, an idea of the influence of the nonlinearities, disturbances and ...
... satellite control, time-varying systems, Lyapunov stability 1. INTRODUCTION The last couple of decades have seen an astonishing series of achievements in aerospace science and technology, such as ...
... arrangement and an electronic feedback control shown in Chapter 1, is another good example of this kind of ...from the same research group [ 97 ], it is informed that frequency compensation of ...
... FRANCE The delegation to the flight crew of some tasks currently performed by air traffic controllers provides new perspectives to potentially increase air traffic control ...specifically, the ...
... commands the local actuators (u L and u F ): u L = K L (s) · y L , u F = K F (s) · y F Decentralized control is a vast field of ongoing research which has also reached the area of formation ...
... outlines the sequence of the flight software implemented on the onboard computers forthe two ...When the computer is turned on, a RAM-disk is allotted forthe ...
... work for station- keeping. Event-based control is a control methodology where the commands are asynchronously computed, re- ducing the communication needs between the sensors, ...
... CONSTRAINTS The relative motion consists in the motion of a chaser spacecraft equipped with thrusters with respect to the moving local frame attached to a passive target ...assumptions, ...
... of the Matlab R /Simulink R simulator developed by Mounir Kara-Zaitri during his PhD thesis at the ...LAAS-CNRS. The implemented modifications were performed in order to obtain a better-suited tool ...
... requirements and other subsystems specifications. Due to the importance of an integrated control/subsys- tems design methodology, many attempts have been made, mainly in structural control ...
... 4). The simulator here discussed is a modified version of the one developed by Mounir Kara-Zaitri during his PhD thesis at the ...LAAS-CNRS. The implemented modifications were performed in ...
... multiple spacecraft is an enabling technology for many future space science ...will, for example, use the highly coor- dinated, distributed array of vehicles for earth mapping ...
... of the systems to be diagnosed. Most of the approaches, however, focus on hierarchical decomposition [4], while decentralization has been explored less ...frequently. The majority of decentralized ...
... MATERIALS The 3 Omega method, as implemented by AST-DE, was tested on several materials with known properties for ...by the Physikalische Technische Bundesanstalt in Germany, with measured ...
... With the requirement of a reliable and safe-by-construction controller, NMPC prob- lems are solved by the help of validated simulation ...16]. The latter is efficient in short ...